I look at life a bit differently, and like to post my weird thoughts. I like musicial instrument repair and woodworking. For trying to live a somewhat normal life, a lot of weird things happen to me. Instead of putting up with it, I post about it in this blog.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

HVAC: Home Edition, Part 2

A few weeks ago I cleaned out the squirrel cage blower on one of our A/C systems. We have two systems to cool down the house. So I finally got around to cleaning the other blower. First up, this is what I was looking at.

It's a bit different than the other unit, but then again, that one has been replaced twice. This unit and system is still running after 22 years. Of course, I was told that it hadn't been cleaned in 22 years either. So let's get to working on this.

Luckily, I only had to disconnect a few things, and not cut any wires. It was a bit dusty on the outside, as well as rusty. And by rusty, I mean, one of the screws holding the unit was being a pain in the butt as I was trying to get it out. Take a peek.

But it did manage to come off with some elbow grease. Then I managed to get the whole thing disassembled. And it was a bit dusty if I do say so.

Yeah, it's a bit dirty.

So I got around to cleaning it up a bit. Between brushes, screwdrivers, and compressed air, I think I got it looking somewhat decent.

Then came the hard part. Putting it all back together. Everything was going fine until I found one plug-in that didn't have anything to plug in to. So I actually looked at these pictures I took, and found one thing. Take a peek at the upper left hand corner.

Do you see the plug that doesn't actually plug into anything? Yeah, that's what I was dealing with. So once I found that it didn't actually plug into anything I was able to put everything back in place.

So that's another great HVAC victory in the books. After putting the cover on, and turning the system back on, I had to put my ear against the blower to make sure it was running. In other words, it was running so smoothly I could barely ear it. That's a good thing. It shows that I got it nice and clean.

So it's onto the next project sometime or another. I'm learning a lot in class, and hope I can continue with my string of success.